Friday, 19 September 2014

ABC of Zentangle...H

A little Zen, and some Tangles..

( To understand, and learn Zentangle®)

H for Healing, Happiness...

There was a gap of a couple of weeks in continuation of this series as the season for Corporate/Govt officers training began and we were off to the lovely campus of Initiatives of Change at Panchgani, a tiny hill station in Maharashtra, near Pune. Two weeks of hectic activities and we are back to Bangalore for a breather. Hope to make up for the two weeks, and work out to adjust with the coming weeks when we will be in and out of Panchgani.

So, I have chosen Healing and Happiness for H.

Here is a zentangle art created using some randomly selected tangles named with H as the first letter-

And here is the video demonstrating the creation of the above zentangle. With this, we have put up 32 tangles in 8 videos including this one.

ABC of Zentangle..H video:

You may like to see the other videos and posts on A,B,C,D,E,F and G HERE.

And now some Zen on Healing and Happiness..

The Zentangle World is rife with the stories of healing and happiness. From my experience, I would like to recount the story of one of my students, Mrs Prabhu, who had gone through a major surgery, post chemo, found indulgence in Zentangle on her hospital bed 'healing'. You may click on her name above to read more.

Another elderly student of mine, a 78 year old lady had just lost her husband. She was plunged into loneliness and there for a sort of depressed feeling. She learnt Zentangle, and got hooked on to it. Reason? well she found pracicing Zentangle kept her in the 'here and now' state. The happiness, and so also sadness can only be experienced in the present moment. Those who have tendency to get plunged into sadness or regrets if they dwell into past, or get into anxiety mode if they focus on future (this could happen often to elderly people), must be helped to remain in the present moment as far as possible. Practicing Zentangle does that.